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...instant of destruction. Objects, human or inanimate, that came between the blast and other objects cast their shadows as unburned patterns on the protected space: a spiral ladder was imprinted on the surface of a storage plant behind it. Survivors foraging for food in vegetable gardens later that day dug up potatoes and found that they had been baked in the ground...
...Bosnian Serbs," says a senior Administration official. "Milosevic, for his part, is scared to death of what he considers the feckless American political process. He says, 'What happens some day when [what he calls] the German-Muslim lobby on Capitol Hill says let's reimpose sanctions?' Milosevic is dug in on reimposition, and so are we." Milosevic wants reimposition to be in the hands of the Security Council, where the U.S. is sure a Russian veto would scuttle a renewal of the embargo should that become necessary. The Clinton Administration wants to preserve as much unilateral control over the reimposition...
...National Rifle Association has been slapped with the lowest possible credit rating by Dun & Bradstreet, a major credit-rating agency. The report of the gun lobby's failing financial strength and credit worthiness shows, "an organization that has dug itself a deep hole," according to accountant James Nesbitt, who audits non-profit groups. Following other reports that the NRA has run in the red since 1991 with a cumulative deficit of some $60 million, at least one NRA contractor is reviewing Dun & Bradstreet's four-page evaluation. Other banks and contractors might do the same, which according to Nesbitt, might...
...landed in a grassy clearing, O'Grady wasted no time. In seconds, he had shed his parachute and was dashing toward a small clump of bushes. There he quickly dug his face into the dirt and covered his ears with his green gloves so that no bare skin would be visible. Barely in time. Within four minutes, Serbs had swarmed over the area in a furious effort to find...
Langone's work is wonderfully provocative, notonly because it's filled with anecdotes dug fromthe bowels of Harvard's Countway Library ofMedicine but also because his sources arepredominantly primary. Langone observed a grossanatomy class firsthand and shadowed medicalstudents and doctors to detail their experiences...